"In general experience has taught me to doubt that hope is a good life strategy."
                                                   (---contestant on The Great American Recipe)

A good beginning makes a good ending.
                                          ---Scottish proverb

And, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

Color hair
Cut hair to encourage growth
Harvest aboveground crops

Little and often fills the sock.
                                    ----Dutch proverb

The best way to keep your word is not to give it.

Time and patience bring a snail to Cork.
                                               ---(Irish proverb)

Whatever you are, be a good one.
                                           ---Abraham Lincoln

Advisers are not the payers.
                                           ---French proverb

Why do we need books on how to handle people?  A mere child  can do it, without half crying.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was.